Harald Reiterer

Curriculum Vitae:

Education and Professional Experience

• 2008 Call at the University of Stuttgart, W3-Professor (Chair) “Machine-System Interaction and Cognitive Systems” in the Cluster of Excellence “Simulation Technologies (SimTech)”
• 1997-present Professor at the University of Konstanz, Department of Computer and Information Science and Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Group
• 1990-1995 Senior Researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction research group of the National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), St.Augustin/Bonn, Germany, nowadays Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)
• 1987-1996 Research and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Vienna, Austria 1995 Promotion to professor (Habilitation) for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Vienna, Austria
• 1991 Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, Austria in Economics and Computer Science
• 1981-1986 M.Sc. (Magister) from the University of Vienna, Austria in Economics and Computer Science

Main Research Interests:

• visual information retrieval systems (e.g. Visual User Interfaces for Digital Libraries)
• post-desktop user interfaces (e.g. ZOIL Zoomable Object-Oriented Information Landscape)
• new input devices (e.g. Laserpointer, PDA, Tracking) for large high resolution displays (e.g. Powerwall)
• new usability engineering methods and tools (e.g. Visual Requirement Specification, Framework for Long-term Evaluation Methods)
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